Personal histories, imagined places, and harsh roads to tenderness create the landscapes that poets Maria Giesbrecht (A Little Feral), Laurie D. Graham (Calling It Back to Me), Sadiqa de Meijer (Qaf’s People) and Tanis Macdonald (Tall, Grass, Girl) explore in their latest collections.
In this panel discussion, moderated by Sarah Tolmie, these authors will discuss truth, authenticity, and the fine line between the two. Whether their work is based on real events or fictional locations, what makes a poem ‘true’? What kind of belonging might be found in that interstitial space between the tangible and the imaginary?Â
